Here is a good FREE way to copy music from an iPod to your computer using Mac OS X.
Note: I'm using an intel Macbook Pro running OS X Leopard v10.5.6 and a
sixth generation 160GB iPod Classic.
1. Install the latest version of MacFUSE
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/downloads/list2. Install iPodDisk (currently at 2.01b)
http://code.google.com/p/ipoddisk/downloads/list3. Plug in your iPod and make sure disk mode has been enabled
4. Launch iPodDisk.app
iPodDisk will open a Finder window containing all your music categorised into the following folders: Albums, Artists, Compilations, Genres, Playlists.
Find the music you want and copy it.
As mentioned on the
Google Code How To page for iPodDisk, it is highly experimental stuff so you will encounter a few bugs.
Bugs I found when using it:* After about ten minutes it may come up with unexpected read/write errors. If this happens close iPodDisk, eject iPodDisk, reopen iPodDisk.app and copying should work again.
* You can't copy additional folders while a transfer from iPodDisk -> Destination is in progress.
Avoid browsing iPodDisk and copying additional folders while a transfer is taking place and you should be fine.
* Bugs with Case. iPodDisk displays artists and albums case-sensitively. Say you have the artist Metronomy saved in your ID3 tags as Metronomy and METRONOMY these will show up in iPodDisk in two distinct artist folders which can cause problems when copying both folders to your computer. OS X will complain saying you already have an artist of that name in your destination when copying both folders.
Even with these bugs iPodDisk is a good FREE way I've found to intuitively (don't have to muck about with
iPod system folders) get songs off of an iPod using Mac OS X.
Visit iPodDisk's Google Code page for more info on iPodDisk:
http://code.google.com/p/ipoddisk/Other WaysA good paid app to get songs off your iPod from Mac OS X is
Senuti.
Another program I've used in the past is
Floola however it takes longer to set up than alternative programs and then I find it buggy when selecting music to copy.
Know a better FREE way to get songs from an iPod in Mac OS X? Please leave a comment.
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64revolt - C.A.P.I.P (3:50)
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Tesla Boy - Spirit Of The Night (4:56)
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Hercules and Love Affair - You Belong (4:11)
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Lykke Li - Breaking It Up (Familjen Remix) (4:53)
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Hercules and Love Affair - Blind (6:18)
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iamerror - Forest of Fellatio (2:09)
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Hey Champ - Cold Dust Girl (4:21)
Download via Megaupload7 tracks in playlist, average track length: 4:22
Playlist length: 30 minutes 38 seconds
Compilation NotesSo this monthly is nine days late: I'm sorrrryyy.
I have been pretty busy this month moving out of my rental and back into my parents place (in preparation for the move to the UK - not for fun, I assure you) so I haven't had a lot of time to put these songs together until now.
This is also the reason why there are only seven songs.
I stumbled upon this great index of music:
http://postmusic.org/music using the "search Google for mp3s hack" (intitle:index of "artist - song") in March. Three songs in the compilation come from this index of music: 'Tesla Boy - Spirit Of The Night', 'Lykke Li - Breaking It Up' and 'Hey Champ - Cold Dust Girl'.
During March I discovered (through a friend's Last.fm)
Hercules and Love Affair which I love - despite previously despising Antony Hegarty's (of Antony and the Johnsons) voice. Once again the music reigns supreme. I love this style of music - I don't know how you'd classify it though. It reminds me of the German trio,
Whirlpool Productions which I also love.
Blah blah, okay okay... some honourable mentions.
64revolt - C.A.P.I.P. - found this song via a TweetDeck search for "cyberpunk". This song would get stuck in my head and I HAD to repeat it over and over and over and over.
Tesla Boy - Spirit of The Night - found this via the above mentioned index of music and fell in love with it on first listen. So amazing. If you like this song, definitely check out their EP here:
http://www.myspace.com/teslaboysound.
iamerror - Forrest of Fellatio - another Twitter find. This time through a recommendation of the "
cybergrind" genre by Skins writer,
Jamie Brittain. The chorus of this song gets stuck in my head Tom Hanks big time.
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I was going through some old photos and found this one.
Our old 486DX, yeah!
Click to enlargeI think this was our families third computer?
1st = Commodore 64
2nd = 386? Win3.1
3rd = 486 Win95 - with Weezer film clip on the Win95 demo disc.
I was taking a photo of my website at the time but as you can see it didn't turn out very well.
I loved this computer and would spend a LOT of time on here, making personal web sites, using ICQ, 3D Movie Maker, surfing the net for .midi files, mp3s and playing whatever games I could get my hands on - my faves were: Wacky Wheels, Jones in the Fast Lane, Under a Killing Moon, Tetris and Warcraft 1.
Looking back I never noticed that the model number on our printer was "BJ-200".
I also can't remember why I used such a crappy "Sports Mouse".
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The Prodigy - Omen (Reprise) (2:14)
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Ben Sage - All About You VIP (VIP Mix) (7:53)
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Metronomy - On Dancefloors (4:45)
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Something with Numbers - Stay With Me Bright Eyes (4:06)
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Animal Collective - My Girls (5:40)
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Evol Intent, Spor, Ewun - Levitate (6:36)
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Sparkadia - Jealousy (4:36)
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Junior Boys - Bits and Pieces (4:01)
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Benestrophe - H.I.V. (Test Positive) (6:21)
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Lykke Li - Little Bit (AutoErotique Bootleg Remix) (3:56)
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Metronomy - Holiday (4:15)
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Lily Allen - Back To The Start (4:11)
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Calyx - Mirror Image (7:26)
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The Prodigy - Omen (3:36)
Download via Megaupload14 tracks, average track length: 4:58
Playlist length: 1 hour 9 minutes 36 seconds
Compilation NotesFebruary has been so-so for me and music. I am pretty much bored of all the songs in my best of February - I've played them too much.
I'm still enjoying Drum & Bass, three D&B songs firmly secured their place in this months list.
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Tests can be fun. I stumbled upon these Nerd Tests and was curious to see how nerdy I am. I am posting this on here as I know a few geeks read this blog and might be interested in taking these (
*cough* and posting their results in the comments).
Nerd Test #1
Nerd Test #2
I just took a break from reading my favourite magazine,
Scientific American: Mind [Volume 20, Number 1].
I am reading an affecting article about the increased risk of mental illness for children born from older fathers (40yrs old).
Here are some excerpts from the article:
It is widely recognised that a 40-year-old woman has an increased risk of bearing a child with Down syndrome. What is not known is that a 40-year-old man has the same risk of fathering a child with schizophrenia - and even higher odds of his offspring having autism. The risk of bipolar disorder appears to rise as well.
The researchers said that advanced paternal age, as they call it, has also been linked to an increased risk of birth defects, cleft lip and palate, water on the brain, dwarfism, miscarriage and "decreased intellectual capacity."
I do want kids eventually and reading about these risks is making me feel the male equivalent of a woman's biological clock.
TwitterI have been using
Twitter a lot lately - ever since I found the wonderful
TweetDeck program - and find it is having a positive influence on how I write. Twitter has a character limit of 140 words so you have to make every word count. I find the limit helps me follow the good writing rule, "omit needless words". I often use too many needless words when I write. I just finished reading "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. He is a master of clear, succinct writing and I find his books are a pleasure to read because of it.
Here are some Twitter related links I have enjoyed recently:
My InternetMy internet is now fantastic. It is great having an internet connection that DOESN'T cut out every few hours. The Internode support person told me it was a fault with the copper lines at my exchange, the wires/lines? were not insulated properly. A Telstra technician fixed this up and my net has been running great ever since.
Today I switched to a static IP and set up
Port Forwarding for things like
Vuze (formerly Azureus) etc. I had set this up on my old modem but forget to set it up when I upgraded my modem to a
Billion 7404VGP a few months ago.
Another thing I did today was tweak my Vuze settings for faster downloads. I used this post for tips:
10 Ways To Speed Up Torrent Downloads.
FoundI now walk to and from work instead of using public transport. On my way to work I sometimes find discarded notes. So far I have found two funny written notes on the ground. I am collecting these until I have - oh I don't know - ten or so and will then post them on my blog.
I love finding notes and am a big fan of these websites:
Vulgar Learning TechniquesToday I purchased a Solar System poster from Officeworks.
I didn't pay enough attention at school when we were learning about the planets in our solar system so I decided to get the poster and learn them now, in order of their proximity to the sun.
I used that learning mnemonic where you take the first letter from a list of things you want to remember and make a funny - or in my case, vulgar, always vulgar - sentence out of the letters.
My sentence is:
Sun,
My
Vagina
Eats
Men
Jelly,
SUN. So we've got Sun at the start and at the end. This helps me remember:
Sun,
Mercury,
Venus,
Earth,
Mars,
Jupiter,
Saturn,
Uranus and
Neptune. Shout outs to Pluto - I feel for you bro. Ugghhh I just used bro in a sentence.
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Leading Edge Music - Adelaide127 Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000
Ph 08 8223 2168
Fax 08 8223 2322
I never listen to audio CDs anymore. I cannot remember the last time I laboriously (exaggerated for emphasis) opened a CD case, pulled out a CD (hoping not another bit of plastic falls off in the process) and popped it into a CD-ROM/Stereo. The only CDs I listen to now are burnt mp3 cds for use in my car. The reason for not using audio CDs anymore is that I am always on my computer and mp3 is just way easier.
My CD stereo system broke down over a year ago: I don't miss it one bit.
Wow, welcome to 2003. Yes.
It is for this reason that about a year ago I decided to rip all of my old CDs at 320kbps and then sell them.
What are they Granddad?I used to sell CDs to Big Star Records until about a year ago when I was offered a measly $20 for a stack of over 30 popular, pristine condition CDs; I like to keep my shit in good condition (and use the word shit as a generic noun placeholder).
What I see when I recall that Big Star experienceIt was after this experience that I decided to look for better selling alternatives.
I found out that
Leading Edge Music (formerly The Muses) buy non-scratched second-hand CDs and decided to see how much they offered me.
Their prices were much more reasonable, based on how in demand a CD was.
Leading Edge Music's system is great, if your CDs are not scratched and there is a demand for them, an employee will scan the CD's barcode and their computer will tell them how much they will pay for that CD. This is so much better than the Big Star experience of standing in a musty basement, bending over and getting fucked in the ass (once again exaggeration for emphasis) with a variable selling price seemingly pulled out of thin air. On further examination your CDs' selling price is based on which employee you get and their individual perception of your well-looked-after CD's worth. No thank you.
So yes, if you are thinking about selling your old CDs and going 100% digital I highly recommend selling them to Leading Edge Music.
As an aside, I was pleasantly surprised by
the great range of DVDs Leading Edge Music stock! When selling my last batch of CDs I had a look around the store and was blown away by their diverse range of DVDs. Art house, Australian, special interest, music, war, health, science, director, comedy, A-Z, every genre and hard to find movie seems to be available.
Here is a receipt from my last CD sale which will give you an idea of how much you get for a CD and what CDs are most in demand.
CD Selling Tips
- Put your three best CDs (most in demand, best condition) at the top of your pile.
Creates an expectancy of quality CDs.
- Open with a question that gets a "yes" reply.
I usually use, "Do you guys still buy CDs?". - An age-old sales technique which puts the staff member in an agreeable frame of mind.
- Find the least biased staff member in the store.
These staff members are more likely to buy all or most of your CDs. Some staff members will reject genres they personally dislike. Look for staff members whose identity doesn't seem to be too tied into music - staff who are just working there for the money. Once you find your mark, return next time at the same time/day increasing your chances of being served by them.
- Dress well.
Optional but I always make sure I'm wearing a polo top at least when selling anything.
By dressing well, you're telling the staff member - on a subconscious level - that you take pride in yourself (and your possessions). This makes the staff member expect your goods to be of high quality, by association.
Do you know of a better place in Adelaide than Leading Edge Music to sell CDs to?
If so please leave a comment for me and readers of this blog.
I still have a stack of about 30 more CDs I'm wanting to sell.
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First of all I would like to say a big thank you to Sara's mum for buying me this book for my birthday (my request). I mean no offense with this review.
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne, published 1864.
I didn't enjoy this book at all.
I read the Puffin Classics English translation; the 'Axel' version.
Originally written in French by Jules Verne this "sci-fi classic" is jumpy, unbelievable and factually incorrect (though forgivable as it
was written in 1864). Oh I didn't mention tedious, this book is incredibly tedious. You have to read 3/4 of the book before it gets vaguely interesting. The characters are boring and predictable. Parts of the story which could have been really interesting are instead frequently dismissed. Here's an example:
"True enough the bundle was caught on a projection about a hundred feet above us. Straight away the agile Icelander climbed up like a cat, and in a few minutes the bundle was returned to us. 'Now', said my uncle, 'let us have breakfast, bearing in mind that we may have a long journey in front of us'."
What!? I feel robbed. Why invent such a setback if it's just going to be dismissed in no more than a sentence! I would have loved to have this feat described to me. What was his climbing technique like? Did he ever slip? What in his past made him so cat-like when climbing?
This sort of lazy writing happens a lot in this book.
Here is all you need to know about the stupid, boring characters:
The Professor - He's like, really smart okay! He is the classic "mad professor" archetype. He's not that mad just irresponsible, self-centred and impatient. He is an incredibly annoying plot device used to make this journey believable - oh if anyone could make this journey it is the mad prof. right?
Axel - The teenage narrator and nephew of the professor. From his name you might imagine he is manly and brave: in reality he is a whiny bitch. He is a negative nancy always thinking about or fearing for his life, oh Axel *rolls eyes*. The professor, when not leading Axel to his certain death either scolds or laughs at Axel's healthy cautiousness.
Hans - The group's Icelandic guide (and resident Superhero). He is the strong silent type - oh Hans, what are you thinking about, you're so dreamy. He is too perfect in that he ALWAYS saves the day: salvages rations, retrieves bundles, saves Axel and the prof. from certain death more than once, pickaxes more than two feet into a solid granite wall to retrieve water. His superhero like abilities and unwavering loyalty to Axel and the prof. get old very quickly. If there is ever any danger, don't worry good ol' Hans will save the day. pfffft.
I would not recommend any adult today in 2009 read this book. You have nothing to gain and everything to lose: inaccurate science, loss of your time and unbelievable tedium await. If this book must be read at all it should only be read by children... hmm no, scratch that, just get them to search Wikipedia for "
Travel to the Earth's center" and save them from the horrible pseudoscience in this book. Oh, the book also features cousin marriage - yay for 1864!
